Vodafone offers free handset broadband. For one day. If you don't use a smartphone.

The Register have rightly accused Vodafone of being cheapskates for their free mobile handset based broadband day last week.

It turns out that it not only do most of their contract customers have unlimited Internet access included in their bundles, but that the PAYG users this is targeted at were only able to use WAP access for free under the terms of the offer - it didn't apply to users of mobile broadband or smartphones:

The devil's in the detail - the cheapskates indeed!